Quotes About Dust

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

Death is here and death is there, Death is busy everywhere, All around, within, beneath, Above is death - and we are death. Death has set his mark and seal On all we are and all we feel, On all we know and all we fear, First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too. All things that we love and cherish, Like ourselves must fade and perish; Such is our rude mortal lot - Love itself would, did they not.

Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I jested with him further to break his Melancholy humour: What is Dust, Master Pyne? And he reflected a little: It is particles of Matter, no doubt. Then we are all Dust indeed, are we not? And in a feigned Voice he murmered, For Dust thou art and shalt to Dust return. Then he made a Sour face, but only yo laugh the more.

To the earth shall you return.

After day seven, the next verse in Genesis says, "When no plant of the field was yet in the earth...then the Lord God formed man of dust" (Gen. 2:5-7). That's a description of the sixth day, when God formed "man" ... Genesis 2 is not a description of something that happened after the seventh day, but before...

Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ëStretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.í”

This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”

Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saulís camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.

“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.

Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”